Quotes About Inequality

As black Americans continue to be insulted and dismissed by protected white liberals, the Black Talented Tenth will continue to benefit from political donations, speaking engagements, national media presence, accolades as the official black leaders, and perpetual gigs on MSNBC and CNN.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

When we say 'less fortunate,' we generally mean the poor rather than the disabled, who actually are less fortunate. In truth, the poor are generally 'less fortunate' only in terms of genetics. They are certainly not less fortunate in the amount of help they receive.

The greatest stain upon this great Australian nation's character, without any question, is the great gaps that exist between our Aboriginal brothers and sisters in terms of their health, their education, their living conditions, their incarceration rates and life expectancy. It's a great stain.

Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

We have been growing more food than we need since the '60s... what we have is a terrible distribution problem.

First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.

If someone thinks of something, some new innovation that benefits us all, and the market works properly, they get richly rewarded for that, and that's just terrific, and that creates inequality.

I both love inequality and am terrified of it.

Class is very, very fertile territory for American artists, and it has been for a long time.

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice, and poverty.

The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.

A poor person in my community doesn't see a person driving a Tesla and say, 'That benefits me.'

The most important factor in college admissions is a test that benefits those who are least prepared for college.

Testimony always comes from people who are in some way disempowered.

The unsettling truth is that, for nearly all of American history, the Jesus conjured by most white congregations was not merely indifferent to the status quo of racial inequality; he demanded its defense and preservation as part of the natural, divinely ordained order of things.

The racial perception gap highlights one of the most powerful—but also least discussed—divisions between Americans on the topic of race: the rift between the descendants of White Christian America and the rest of the country.

For 2015, the Equality Index found that blacks had on average only 56 percent of the economic well-being and 61 percent of social justice benefits that whites enjoy.

It is no exaggeration to say that the rich own most of what there is that is not nailed down.

If Eva Moskowitz is to be charged with creating an opportunity for parents like Ayan Wilson, Evelyn Ortega, Vanessa and Andre Farrer, and other families with more ambition for their children than means, it is a curious charge. If you demand that engaged and committed parents send their children to school with the children of disengaged and uncommitted parents, then you are obligated to explain why this standard applies to low-income black and brown parents—and only to them.